Published Mon, May 11, 2015
Brazilian physicist and former researcher at
the CBPF, Neusa Amato, passed away at the age of 89 last week. She was a pioneer
for women in science in Brazil and author of CBPF’s first scientific
publication. Professor Amato retired in 1996, after dedicating 51 years of work
to the research in... Published Tue, May 05, 2015
Created by Steve White in 1992, the Density
Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method has revolutionized the study of
interacting systems in low-dimensions and was rapidly adapted by the numerical
many body methods groups around the globe.
Discussions on this subject and other related
ones... Published Mon, May 04, 2015
From June 08 to 19 the International Institute
of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) will host
the School and Workshop “Theoretical Frontiers in Black
Holes and Cosmology”, an event dedicated to the exchange of experiences between
scientists from Brazil and... Published Wed, Apr 15, 2015
The LHC is back in business! On April 05 the
Large Hadron Colider returned to its activities for the first time after a two
year stop for maintenances. For now, technicians at the CERN control room are
still testing the accelerator’s subsystems and optimizing key beam parameters
before... Published Mon, Apr 06, 2015
Professor Pasquale Sodano, research leader at
the IIP, was listed by the “Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities” as one of
Brazil’s most cited scientists, in a list built during the first week of
February 2015. The ranking used information from the Google Scholar Citations
database, and... Published Fri, Mar 20, 2015 | Tags: IAC
From March 16 to 17 the IIP hosted the annual
reunion of its International Advisory Council, when the directives for 2016
were decided. This was also the opportunity for the Institute board members to
evaluate the performance of the IIP in the past year, concerning its scientific
production and...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |